I’m finding it hard to find the time to find a game idea.

If you didn’t understand that sentence, just read it as “I’m short on time.” Anyway, I’m hoping to be able to participate with a 24-hour game (sunday only), but we’ll see.

Also, I urge you all to play some Towlr before the contest starts.

Good luck to everyone!

This was my first Ludumdare entry, and not knowing just what I could manage in 48 hours I decided to stick with a simple idea and tools and libraries I’m familiar with. The original game idea was to make the player hit all the walls in a 2d space with a trickier-than-usual to control ball, although this didn’t quite work with the Tower theme. Hence, I decided to turn the walls into a scoring mechanism, and to make a tower to ascend or descend instead.

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There, I’m finally finished with my game for LD12 :>

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Here’s an updated zip. The game is the same, but it has a slightly improved XML file for the compo game loader:
Towerball, CGL XML updated
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The final version is here: Towerball

There is also a webstart version.

For instructions, check out the readme.

7-levels in total, one featuring a somewhat dodgy owl. It’s really hard to do art on a 1/5 scale in an overly simple map editor!

Here’s a couple of progress screenshots to show how things have been coming along:

• Sketch
• First version
• Cleaner
• New look
• GUI
• Level editor

It’s been loads of fun doing my first entry for an LD 48h competition – I will quite probably be back for more!

I’ve gotten as far as having a demo to show. It’s Java webstart this time – will probably create an exe wrapper for the game before submission tomorrow. Try it if you like!

Well, I’ve something that’s working reasonably… and plays very poorly. It’s just too hard! The idea as it is now is to climb the tower using a limited amount of, uh, jumps? And touching as many walls as possible on the way up.

Bit late I suppose, but just to make things clear I’m using a really simple template for Slick apps which does nothing but opens up a window and listens to key events, that I’ve done beforehand. You’re welcome to it, of course, but I doubt anybody will find much need for it :>

I’m new to Ludum Dare, so I thought I might introduce myself with a short post. The plan is to enter the competition when it starts in a short while, although I suppose it still remains to be seen if I can find the time to do so :>

I’ll be using Java, and probably at least one of the below libraries:

• Slick, which in turn relies on LWJGL. Slick is a 2D game library using OpenGL.
• Phys2D, a physics engine for java (port of the same engine as JBox2D).

As for the game, I’m fairly convinced that whatever I make will be simplistic at best. But hey, I’ve heard somewhere that it’s participating that matters Now, I’m curious to see the other entries – good luck folks!

For the fake vote competition, I present:

THE GAME

It’s not only a beautiful metaphor, it’s also quite artistic. Further, it features very spectacular, stereoscopic gameplay. Behold: